Where does “kettutarhaus” come from?
kettutarhaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish kettu, from Finnish kettää, from Finnish kesi, from Proto-Finnic keci, from Proto-Uralic keδ́e.
kettutarhaus (Finnish): fox farming
Ancestry of “kettutarhaus”, step by step
kettutarhaus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kettu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kettu | red fox; fox; Euphemistic form of vittu |
| 2 | Finnish | kettää | — |
| 3 | Finnish | kesi | The thin outer layer of skin; Third-person... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | keci | outer skin |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | keδ́e | — |
via Finnish tarhaus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tarhaus | — |
| 2 | Finnish | tarhata | To ranch, farm |
| 3 | Finnish | -tä | Front vowel variant of -ta |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ta | Partitive ending |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -tä | from |